Texas · Private foundation
SS Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $276k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,425
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations SS Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $276k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $264k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $330k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $133k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $192k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $456k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Point Village Inc | $618,212 | 6 | 37% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $312,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Methodist Children's Home | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lubbock Dream Center | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parallel Resource Corporation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Lubbock Chamber Orchestra | $17,500 | 3 | 32% |
| Applied Dynamics Initiative | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lubbock Christian School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lubbock Impact Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Point Village Inc | $618,212 | 6 | 37% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $312,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Methodist Children's Home | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lubbock Dream Center | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parallel Resource Corporation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Lubbock Chamber Orchestra | $17,500 | 3 | 32% |
| Applied Dynamics Initiative | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lubbock Christian School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lubbock Impact Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Covenant Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Riley Reding Memorial Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Texas Als Support Group | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stick Horses and Capes Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Women's Protective Services | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Science Spectrum Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Rabida Children's Hospital | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Estacado Cemetery Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cush Empowerment Group | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Texas Children's Chorus | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Girls and Boys Ranch | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Prater Peak Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
SS Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About SS Foundation
- How much does SS Foundation give?
- SS Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $276,425 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does SS Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are SS Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: High Point Village Inc ($618k), Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($313k), Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc ($150k).
- Does SS Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does SS Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as SS Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ch Foundation Inc, HDS Foundation, Kuykendall Foundation.
- Where is SS Foundation based?
- SS Foundation is based in TX.
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